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In Conversation With Our Number 1 Art Director
Thule Ngcese
Our very own Creative Director, Thule Ngcese, was ranked as the Number 1 Art Director in South Africa when the 2021 Loeries Official Rankings lists were released in January 2022. We managed to take him off the piles of briefs he's working on to grab a cuppa with him to discuss his achievements and his creative plans for the future.
What does the title Number 1 Art Director in South Africa mean to you?
I have never been one to speak on my achievements, but somewhere out there is a black kid who grew up like me and will read this and be inspired to do what I have done. To see the hours, days, months and – in this instance – a process that's taken nearly two years come to life and receive the accolades is proof that there's a place for great creative ideas that incorporate the use of tech to live in our country.
Winning my second Loeries Grand Prix and a couple of Gold Loeries (Nissan Shwii) for work that addresses a human need is always meaningful for me. The Number 1 ranking is just validation of the hours I've put in throughout my advertising career, and this is still just the beginning.
What are you focusing on now?
My focus now is nurturing and mentoring young talent – the talent that could conceivably be ranked in that Number 1 spot in the future. I'm also focused on building us a better Boom and an agency that sees what others overlook and believes in building in creating better work that makes a difference for brands and ultimately a difference in people's lives.
How have you tackled this 'better brands', 'better lives' objective since joining us?
Well, for starters, we bagged 1st place for the Creative Circle Ad of the Month (November 2021 awarded in January 2022) in the Radio & Audio category for Ricoffy. Also, as part of NESCAFÈ RICOFFY'S 50th-year campaign, we encouraged people to celebrate their South Africanness by submitting their favourite Mzansi words.
As a nation filled with diverse languages and cultures, it's no myth that sometimes things get lost in translation. So, when the country submitted their words, we developed the MZANSAY Keyboard that suggests user-generated South Africanness words to use when sending a text so you can avoid the miscommunication dilemma.
We also created a radio campaign that helped clear up the confusion in our daily interactions, proving that sometimes it's only our South Africanness that'll do.
I am super proud of this work, and to see our young creative team – Musawenkosi Nhlapo, Obakeng Rapoo and Mongezi Xhoma – win first place for the Creative Circle Ad of the Month is a great highlight for me so far. Seeing them eager to create more and get recognised for their work is exciting to see. I can't wait for the world to see what these kids have been doing. Ilali iyabulela.
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Review: The Void
There will be blood...and spoilers.
But mostly blood.
You've been warned.
I have been stalking this movie for months and, when it finally came up for me to watch, I ended up unfortunately getting sidetracked by all the messy details of life. That said, last night I finally had the opportunity to sit down and watch The Void and it was well worth the wait. Now, I want to start out with the downside of this movie. It's my only complaint really but it's a biggy in my book. They had too much story for a single film. Usually it's the other way around as directors and writers struggle to take a 30 minute plot and stretch it into a feature length picture without any form, cohesion or credibility. That wasn't the case with The Void. If anything, the story is too ambitious for a single 90 minute feature and could easily have started out as part one of a two or even three part series of films. I'd love to see more, to read more because the characters and elements of the story all felt like the culmination of something much larger that is only ever alluded to and never really shown. I'll try to explain.
Doctor Richard Powell is one of the most respected members of the small community of Marsh County but, after the death of his daughter, did what any grieving parent would do and started looking for answers. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he found those answers within the Abyss. This, boys and girls, is the set up for a classic Lovecraftian tale of ancient gods manipulating men of science and fact into lunatics driven by zeal to achieve some "holy" calling. While you don't actually come to this realization until the end of the movie, it's important for the review that we set this up at the beginning. Despite the cast of characters only having a cursory knowledge of one another in most cases, the good doctor has been at work in their individual lives for quite some time.
The story centers on Daniel Carter, a sheriff's deputy in what is unsurprisingly a small community in the middle of nowhere. His night goes from struggling to stay awake on the graveyard shift to struggling to stay alive as an injured meth addict scrambles out into the woods in front of his cruiser. He races the babbling, injured man to the nearest hospital, the nearly deserted Marsh County Medical where Doctor Powell and a handful of nurses (including Daniel's estranged wife Allison) are the only staff in attendance. Along with a couple of patients -a young man laid up in a room watching Night of the Living Dead and a pregnant teen with her grandfather for moral support- it seems like an otherwise quiet night for the skeleton crew trying to pack up the remains of the fire scarred building. Of course, that was before nurse Beverly had a psychotic break and decided to carve up her only patient and her own face. In case you were wondering, we're barely fifteen minutes into the movie and I've already skipped over a moment of ominous foreshadowing with characters credited only as The Father and The Son slaughtering their way through a farmhouse full of cult disciples.
While the newly admitted meth-head is being treated and sedated by the good doctor, nurse Beverly is busy slicing away at the unfortunate patient in the other room as well as herself own face. After some vague, creepy banter about not wearing her own face, she ends up with a .40 caliber lobotomy and chaos ensues. As corpses begin to mutate into Cronenberg-esque abominations, a thunderous trumpet echoes across the sky summoning cultists in white robes with a now familiar black triangle over their hooded faces to assemble around the hospital. After the expected posturing and dick measuring of Alpha males in the midst of the crisis, something not quite close to order is restored for a few moments only to fall apart when Allison disappears hunting for medicine for the pregnant and ailing young Maggie. Daniel leads a relatively unenthused group on the most suicidal rescue mission in horror history descending into the far scorched morgue of the dying hospital. Meanwhile, the resurrected and unsurprisingly insane Doctor Powell is already waiting in an autopsy room with Allison getting ready to use her body to further the twisted, godless work he has in mind.
As Daniel, The Father, The Son, and meth man James descend deeper into the depths of the charred basement of the hospital, burned in a mysterious fire prior to the start of the movie, they encounter hallucinations and abominations beyond their wildest nightmares in the form of Powell's past experiments. As the group begins to separate, each called by their own desires from impending terror at the possibility of death to the agony of lost loved ones taken by the cult and its monstrous gods, the mysteries of The Void persist. Glimpses of Father and Son's home, the bloodbath that took The Mother and a small child shine through the darkness and force the duo to relive the trauma that started them on the road to the Marsh County Hospital. James, the methed out tweaker looking for an escape is slaughtered by a crab walking abomination while Daniel, regrettably, finds Allison lying on a slab, "mother" to yet another terrible creation. Meanwhile, pregnant teen Maggie goes on her own murder spree and ends up in the morgue ready to give birth to Powell's "daughter."
This movie has everything. Everything!
The Lovecraftian story telling, the elements of classic 80's horror, and practical effects like you wouldn't believe. There are subtle tributes paid to gore saturated horror films of the past like Hellraiser and The Thing as well as entirely new and creepy creations brought to life by the director and crew. Between the cultists, Powell's "disciples", the zombies, and tentacle monsters it's practically a love letter to the Cthulhu mythos and it's exactly what fans of cosmic horror have been craving for years. The tangible influences of Cronenberg and Carpenter are alive with every monster and elder god ripping apart sanity to force itself into our reality. As if that weren't enough, there are some of the most artistically shot scenes I've watched in a horror movie in a long time. The one that stands out the most comes as Daniel makes the painful decision to end Allison's suffering.
The autopsy room is covered in crawling tentacles and mucous drenched limbs erupting from her immobilized body and slowly growing into the wall and floor around her. Steeling himself, he lifts the fire ax in his hands and prepares to swing. The scene cuts to the hallway outside, scorched and black and poorly lit except for the light shining through the frosted glass on the door. You see Daniel's silhouette as he hefts the ax and brings it down quickly. He repeats the motion again and again as blood sprays onto the glass. The camera slowly pans out, down the corridor and away from the carnage. Instead of that guttural, anguished growl of a man mercy killing the woman he loves or the swish and thunk as the blade cut through whatever alien appendage had become her neck, all we hear is silence followed by the steady drone of an ominous horn blaring. Like a classic horror movie, the terror isn't in what we see but what is left to our imagination. Imagine Christopher Nolan making horror. That's The Void from start to finish.
The Void is everything we need in the horror genre right now. Solid writing (even if they do need more time to tell the story they wrote) combined with clever direction, good performances and loads of perfectly executed practical effects instead of the CGI that has become so prevalent. This movie feels like the start of something major, not just for its story but for the genre itself. Something is waking up, something magnificent and insane and absolutely horrifying and if you haven't watched The Void then you're going to be totally unprepared for what's coming.
Dan Lee is a horror fiend and freelance writer with a special place in his heart for monster movies and demonic possession stories.
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Fornix (neuroanatomy)
The fornix (meaning "arch" in Latin) is a C-shaped bundle of nerve fibers in the brain that acts as the major output tract of the hippocampus. The fornix also carries some afferent fibres to the hippocampus from structures in the diencephalon and basal forebrain. The fornix is part of the limbic system. While its exact function and importance in the physiology of the brain are still not entirely clear, it has been demonstrated in humans that surgical transection – the cutting of the fornix along its body – can cause memory loss. There is some debate over what type of memory is affected by this damage, but it has been found to most closely correlate with recall memory rather than recognition memory. This means that damage to the fornix can cause difficulty in recalling long-term information such as details of past events, but it has little effect on the ability to recognize objects or familiar situations.
Fornix
Diagram of the fornix. Right=anterior
Tractography showing fornix
Small medial central branches of the anterior communicating artery
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StructureEdit
The fibers begin in the hippocampus on each side of the brain as fimbriae; the separate left and right sides are each called the crus of the fornix (plural crura). The bundles of fibers come together in the midline of the brain, forming the body of the fornix. The lower edge of the septum pellucidum (the membrane that separates the lateral ventricles) is attached to the upper face of the fornix body.
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The body of the fornix travels anteriorly and divides again near the anterior commissure. The left and right parts separate, but there is also an anterior/posterior divergence.
The posterior fibers (called the postcommissural fornix) of each side continue through the hypothalamus to the mammillary bodies; then to the anterior nuclei of thalamus, which project to the cingulate cortex.
The anterior fibers (precommissural fornix) end at the septal nuclei and nucleus accumbens of each half of the brain.
CommissureEdit
The lateral portions of the body of the fornix are joined by a thin triangular lamina, named the psalterium (lyra). This lamina contains some commissural fibers that connect the two hippocampi across the middle line and constitute the commissure of fornix (also called the hippocampal commissure).
The terminal lamina creates the commissure plate. This structure gives existence to the corpus callosum, the septum pellucidum, and the fornix. The fornix splits into two columns at the front (anterior pillars), and then splits into two posterior crura. These two crura are joined together through the hippocampal commissure. The beginning of the splitting is called the psalterium or Lyra Davidis. The latter name is used because the structure resembles a lyra (or triangular harp): The two crura are the "chassis" of the lyra, and the commissure connections are the fibers.
ColumnsEdit
The columns (anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramina and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the grey matter in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the mammillary bodies.
CrusEdit
The crura (posterior pillars) of the fornix are prolonged backward from the body.
They are flattened bands, and, at their commencement, are intimately connected with the under surface of the corpus callosum.
Diverging from one another, each curves around the posterior end of the thalamus, and passes downward and forward into the temporal horn of lateral ventricle.
Here, it lies along the concavity of the hippocampus, on the surface of which some of its fibers are spread out to form the alveus, while the remainder are continued as a narrow white band, the fimbria of hippocampus, which is prolonged into the uncus of the parahippocampal gyrus.
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Jack Russells are bred as working terriers. With a very recent heritage as hunting dogs, they're built to be fast, vocal, and above all, to love "going to ground" burrowing after a fox, or other game, which has retreated to its den.
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Involuntary Landscaping - Are You Prepared?
If you like to spend your Sundays designing and shaping your flowerbeds for their aesthetic qualities, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise with the addition of a Jack Russell terrier to your household.
It is very difficult - not to mention unfair to the dog - to attempt to quash this love of tunneling and digging in a Jack Russell. If you're not prepared to allow him to indulge this harmless habit, then this breed is not for you.
Of course, there's a difference between accepting your Jack Russell for what he is, and permitting him to run rampant in your garden. It is possible for flowers and terriers to coexist; you just need to put in some forethought and effort in order to sustain the two together.
Plant roses. No dog likes to contend with those prickly thorns - there are few more effective deterrents against digging.
Dog poop can be utilized, with extraordinary results. If your terrier has demonstrated a preference for digging in particular inconvenient or undesirable areas, you can use his own poop against him. Simply pick up some of his poop with a shovel or plastic bag, and place it in the hole that he likes to dig in. Cover it over with a little earth, and your dog will not dig there again. Of course, this may not be an appropriate means of preventing digging over the entire garden - unless you have no objection to spreading your whole lawn in poop.
Allocate him some digging areas of his own. Sacrifice a few yards of your garden for the greater good of your terrier. It can help to mark off the area with visual cues, using the medium that your terrier seems to prefer - sand, dirt, grass, etc.
If you're determined to have a Jack Russell in your house, and you're equally determined to prevent him from digging, you may be in for a challenging time. The only way to guarantee that he'll never be able to dig is to only allow him access to the yard when he's supervised. This means active supervision - there's no guaranteeing the outcome if you just glance casually up from your book every so often from the comfort of your deck chair.
This isn't to say that your dog is absolutely fixated upon digging; but terriers, and Jack Russells in particular, do enjoy it and were originally bred for it.
Your dog will be safe. Jack Russells are known escape artists, and unless your fence is sunk at least several inches below the ground, he may be at risk of tunneling under and making his own great escape.
Jack Russells thrive on outdoor stimulation. To prevent him from enjoying time in the garden is frustrating for the dog, and potentially could signify the rapid destruction of your furniture and carpets from simple excess energy. If you're going to actively prevent him from digging, be prepared to spend at least an hour outside with him in the garden, plus walking and playing time.
Jack Russells are terriers - the word literally means "go to ground". It's unlikely that you'll ever completely control your terrier's need to dig. This is something that you need to consider before making the purchase of a puppy or dog, in order to prevent a lot of upset and heartbreak if, a year or so down the track, you should decide that your garden is more important than your dog.
This is a traumatic failure for the dog and can mark the beginning of a sad downward spiral into "rescue shelters" (read: a small concrete cell where he'll wait, sometimes for years, for a new owner to take a shine to him).
Have a serious think about your priorities before getting a Jack Russell. Jack Russells have plenty of good qualities, but they're not for the faint-hearted! If you're ready to welcome one of these cute snappy wee dogs into your family, I highly suggest you Secrets to Dog Training's chapters on how to train your dog not to dig.


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Norman Lloyd gave away the end of LIMELIGHT and I didn't care. Not that I should care, since when you're Norman Lloyd you can pretty much do anything you want. Plus if, like me, you've waited this long to see LIMELIGHT then any risks you take are on you. Besides, a film is more than how it ends, at least that's how it should be. This event happened partway through the second day of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival which by that point was already a whirlwind and there I was, about to see Charlie Chaplin's LIMELIGHT for the very first time, preceded by a discussion featuring the legendary Norman Lloyd who appears in the film. One story he told required revealing how it ends and, yes, when he started I was taken aback that Lloyd would actually do this but let me go back a little first. It's impossible to cover the entire TCM Festival since it's impossible to experience the entire TCM Festival. There are always going to be films that you don't see, appearances you don't make it to, people who you know that you barely get to see. The blogger meet-up at the Formosa the night before it all starts organized by my friend @oldfilmsflicker takes care of that last part since once it all begins you just have to hit the ground running and not look back. This sort of marathon viewing used to be something I did much more of but you can't keep that insanity up forever. Patton Oswalt, in his recent book "Silver Screen Fiend", writes about attending a massive Hammer Films festival put on by the American Cinematheque (in the years before they took over the Egyptian and Aero) that took place over two consecutive weekends way back in '95. Probably not much of a surprise but just as Patton Oswalt was I was there for every single film they played. As far as I remember, he and I never met but I look back on something like that with a combination of amazement at how I actually did that and wondering just what the hell I was thinking. I could never do something like that again now otherwise I'd go stir crazy but for whatever reason the TCM Classic Film Festival is an exception I'll gladly make. To be honest, it was a glorious weekend.
The theme for this year's festival which ran from March 26-29 was "History According to Hollywood", a subject broad enough that you and I could easily program our own series filled with completely different selections. Certainly the inclusion of several John Ford films throughout was a worthy choice as were things like the recently discovered 1919 Harry Houdini film THE GRIM GAME. One point of controversy about this year's selections were certain newer titles— in particular, Steven Soderbergh's OUT OF SIGHT (shown with editor Anne V. Coates in attendance which is a good enough reason for me) and APOLLO 13 for its 20th anniversary with a Jim Lovell appearance. The year was also made notable by the unfortunate absence of TCM host Robert Osborne for health reasons. These subjects came up during the "Ask TCM" panel on Thursday afternoon in the Club TCM area of the Roosevelt Hotel where attendees got to ask questions of various bigwigs from the channel. It was very clear how much TCM really means to people and I guess it means something to me too since I've got it playing on the TV behind me right this second. As the opening night party kicked off, the big red carpet event for THE SOUND OF MUSIC was happening right across the street at the Chinese—I wasn't there for that and that's ok but since it's my mom's favorite movie I have nothing bad to say about it. I was introduced to the Bogart's Gin sponsoring the festival so I had the first of quite a few gin & tonics over the weekend and the fun began. One obvious way my TCM Festival experience differs from others is that since I live in L.A. I already get a pretty good selection of films to see every week anyway so the chances are better that there are going to be films I've seen before, prints I've seen before. And I'd rather see 35mm prints, always. Yes, you can't avoid the awful spectre that is digital projection no matter how much I wish things were otherwise. But my own desire to see these 35mm prints, the way the films were meant to be seen, combined with the chance to see films I've never seen before at all sometimes sends me away from the massive main theater at the Chinese where many of the popular choices play and upstairs to the smaller multiplex area where the funkier titles often turn up. That approach began right off with the double of the 1949 noir TOO LATE FOR TEARS (which in fairness I had already seen, but it's so much fun) starring Lizabeth Scott who was shamefully ignored during the In Memorium segment at this year's Oscars followed by a first viewing of the powerful BREAKER MORANT which was introduced by director Bruce Beresford.
By the time LIMELIGHT came up on Friday in theater #6 at the Chinese multiplex it was well into the day which for me started with the special presentation "The Dawn of Technicolor" at the Egyptian, an eye-popping examination of the early history of the Technicolor process and business with jaw-dropping clips of now-unknown movie musicals from the early sound era. I moved down the street to the Chinese 6 for a digital restoration of the excellent Michael Curtiz western THE PROUD REBEL starring Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland. LIMELIGHT came immediately after and it happened during one of the most packed blocks of the festival--Ann-Margret appearing with THE CINCINNATI KID, a digital restoration of Orson Welles' CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN with Peter Fonda appearing to talk about his father Henry, among others. I went with LIMELIGHT, not only because I'd never seen it and it was about time I had but because I didn't want to go this entire festival without seeing Norman Lloyd, who has recently celebrated his 100th birthday, speak at least once. Norman Lloyd who at one point during a story about his early days paused to mention about someone who appeared briefly in the telling, "And that woman was Katharine Hepburn…who had yet to make a picture." In most stories that would be the climax but here the young Katherine Hepburn was merely an aside. Such is the life of Norman Lloyd. There was no real reason why I should have picked LIMELIGHT but for whatever reason it seemed to make sense.
Much as he should be represented at something like the TCM Festival I've never had much to say about Chaplin before. It's safe to say that many people of my generation have never had much to say about Chaplin before. At this point in time much of his work seems to act as little more than part of a Film History 101 syllabus—THE KID, CITY LIGHTS, MODERN TIMES, various shorts, you deal with the political fallout surrounding THE GREAT DICTATOR and then you move on, maybe back to Buster Keaton since you'd rather be watching THE GENERAL anyway. My favorite Chaplin is MONSIEUR VERDOUX, the first viewing of which is one of those memories I need to write about sometime, and since it doesn't feature his Little Tramp character barely seems to qualify as what we think of as a 'Chaplin' movie. Chaplin's LIMELIGHT, originally released in 1952, also isn't a Little Tramp film and yet unlike MONSIEUR VERDOUX it may be impossible to consider it at all without taking his voluminous history into account. Whatever someone knows about Chaplin is likely going to inform their response to this particular film which makes it all the more fascinating in itself. Or maybe part of why I found it so fascinating was how sincere it was, how unconcerned with how old-fashioned, even for 1952, that it might be. Did part of my response how to do with my own indifference towards Chaplin? Was I confronting whatever that legend really is today or did it somehow go beyond that?
The plot is simple: It is London, 1914. Legendary music hall comic Calvero known as "The Tramp Comedian" (Charlie Chaplin) is nearing the end of his time, often drunk and with very little demand for his talents anymore when he happens upon a depressed young dancer named Terry (Claire Bloom) who has just tried to kill herself. Nursing her back to health Calvero helps restore Terry's self-confidence and resume her dancing career. But her attempts at doing the same for him don't prove as successful and as much as she falls in love with the much older Calvero even her attempts at featuring him in the ballet she's been chosen to star in isn't enough no matter how great the love between them grows. Along with that plot which mostly focuses on its two leads, the visual presentation is just as simple—the film opens with the camera moving into the setting and the final shots have the camera pulling back from the last moments which is maybe about as visually flashy as it ever gets. Chaplin once famously said, "I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting." Which is consistent with his approach to LIMELIGHT, a film which presents its story in plain, clear fashion but is a complex portrayal, as piercing as staring down into Chaplin's own soul. A title card at the beginning tells us the film is "a story of a ballerina and a clown…" but even more than that it's about Chaplin himself, his iconic persona, his career, his life, his own past and the way he looks at the world--I imagine it's not at all coincidence that it's set in 1914, the year he made his first film.
Much of the dialogue is so blunt in its statements about the glories and pain of living that the film can't even really be said to contain subtext since it's all spoken out loud so plainly by the characters already. Even with a few brief ornamental passages showing off the theater scene of London as well as several extended ballet sequences just about any cinematic trickery is entirely limited to Chaplin's own comic antics. And of course Chaplin is right--he is interesting; his physicality is always fascinating to watch throughout the film and not even just during Calvero's routines. It shows us who Calvero is through just his movements as much as anything even with all the lofty statements about life that he makes and this helps, possibly because on occasion the tone of Chaplin's voice almost seems a bit too harsh for the moment. Aside from the two leads everyone is very much a supporting player, including the great Norman Lloyd as the sympathetic ballet director (my favorite moment of his is a silent beat when he pops a piece of candy in his mouth). Even the famous appearance by the great Buster Keaton for a sequence which teams the two legends up together for the first and only time is totally in support of Chaplin—he's not even given a character name, just "Calvero's Partner" but I suppose it's not really needed since of course we know who he really is anyway. And Keaton himself seems totally aware of this in his performance which makes his visible onscreen feelings towards his co-star all the more touching.
As Calvero states near the end, "We're all amateurs. We never have time to become anything else." It's one of any number of lines in the film that could be considered an authorial statement if not his own feelings about everything surrounding what he's observed in life—the phrase "the melancholy of twilight" is heard at one point which could easily have been an alternate title of the film. So nakedly sentimental that it almost seems redundant to even point that out, the film is the work of someone who has accepted things while continually on the verge of tears over how beautiful life is. It's a film about looking back made by someone aware that the world is very much moving forward beyond him. Calvero is worried that his is a type of performing that no one wants anymore, exactly what Chaplin is clearly worried about as well, and I suppose that means even more now that the world really has moved away from whatever he represented. At one point a character, not him, offers the observation, "What is more eloquent than silence?" as if he's remembering what has really been lost in the type of filmmaking he knew best. To give a reason for disregarding charity Calvero offers, "It's the tramp in me," which is a clear reference to his famous character but also can be used to explain his own stubbornness, why he can't make this film anything other than what it is. Calvero's stage persona is clearly an alternate version of that, as if it's the one Chaplin would have taken on if he had lived during that era instead—even the plot point involving Calvero changing his name so no one will know it's him onstage is an interesting choice for this Chaplin film where he is basically playing another version of Chaplin. What we see of his act is never particularly funny, or at least isn't in this day and age, and these scenes go on way too long but maybe that's beside the point—it's a depiction of Chaplin playing Calvero basically playing Chaplin.
Seemingly unencumbered by what a 1952 film is supposed to be and with much of the running time set in Calvero's tiny apartment, the deceptively simple visual style is a reminder that Chaplin as director hadn't changed his ways at all in 30 years. A few moments that can almost be called clumsy on a basic filmmaking level, maybe a reminder that his style didn't always translate to the modern era, almost make me more supportive for it because it reminds me the film always totally means what it's saying about, well, everything. To both Chaplin and Calvero, the young, unsullied Terry is clearly meant to represent all that is good in the world, as well as how dangerously close an artist can come to losing their way through despair and hopelessness. He has to stop her from hating herself because of her past—it's a film set in his own past that's partly about the fear of being held back by that past, held back by some horrible form of regret that sometimes in life we can't do anything to shake and it paralyzes us—in Terry's case, literally. Totally angelic in every single one of her actions towards Calvero, it makes her more of a symbol that a person although Bloom makes her fully human in her performance. Ultimately, the film rages against her initial sorrow over "the utter futility of everything", getting her to want to fight for happiness. The film seems to say that the search for meaning is a waste since the answer is right there in front of us all the time already--art has meaning, love has meaning. In the end, what matters more than anything is that we've gotten to experience just a little of this.
Reading up on how the production was relatively straightforward for Chaplin, who in earlier years didn't hesitate shooting scenes hundreds of times, doesn't affect our perception of the film but it is a reminder of how he had changed. Going out of style which is true now and I imagine had occurred to him then. It's a film that means what it says, is a blunt statement by its legendary star-director of, well, everything he felt about performing, comedy, about the glory and pain of life, whatever that is, that he had learned up until that time. Adding to how personal it all clearly is, his son Sydney plays the key role of Neville the composer who is a possible love interest for Terry while his children Geraldine (her first film appearance), Josephine and Charles, Jr. appear in small roles. Chaplin also doesn't always adhere to strict realism and his famous hesitation towards using sound is recalled in Calvero's stage performances where we don't hear the audience (i.e. laughter) until it's absolutely necessary (i.e. everyone applauds so we know they love him) although the fantasy nature of some of these scenes leaves the necessity open to question as well. Like he did many years ago, Chaplin is experimenting not only with the basic use of sound but also the cinematic necessity of sound. If the result isn't always elegant it doesn't seem to matter.
LIMELIGHT feels designed to be a final work but although it didn't turn out to be Chaplin's last film (A KING OF NEW YORK and A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG followed after his exile from the United States) it was the last one he made in Hollywood, much of it was filmed at the Chaplin Studios just a few blocks away from where the Chinese 6 now is, which makes it an end in itself. Maybe the only way that the film could be more nakedly about Chaplin himself would be if he had gotten up to deliver a speech at the premiere in 1952 and promptly fell over dead (he didn't, for the record), making the story he was telling well and truly complete. Norman Lloyd spoke of the film but also his friendship with Chaplin during his talk with Bruce Goldstein of New York's Film Forum before the film started. Afterwards Lloyd stayed to see the film and I may as well admit that the story he told got me on its side before the lights even went down—I haven't earned the right Norman Lloyd has to give away the film's ending (if you must, here he tells pretty much the same story at the Academy in 2012) but it involved Buster lending unexpected assistance to Chaplin during the filming of the ending and the mental image brought on by one legend selflessly helping out another got me unexpectedly emotional even before the film had started. I didn't care that the ending had been given away. Suddenly, at that very moment right before the lights went down, the ending was the film.
By total happenstance, my next choice after LIMELIGHT was Buster Keaton's own STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. complete with live orchestra, giving me a chance to get the full Buster dose that LIMELIGHT only hinted at. There was more to come that weekend with other films I hadn't seen before--it says something about me that I passed on THE PHILADELPHIA STORY in favor of my first-ever viewing of 1953's HOUDINI because it was a last minute inclusion due to having to cobble together a print from various sources and I wanted to see it looked like (it looked fine and, as cheesy as it was in its early 50s studio gloss, I'm glad I saw that movie too). And there was more through the next few days —THE BANK DICK with TCM favorite Illeana Douglas interviewing W.C. Fields' grandsons, Christopher Plummer speaking before THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, the delightful pre-code DON'T BET ON WOMEN, the early John Ford AIR MAIL. I reacquainted myself with Preston Sturges' glorious CHRISTMAS IN JULY which I think is gaining for me as time goes on, a screening of PSYCHO that featured a very enjoyable introduction by Edgar Wright, a Club TCM discussion with the legendary Shirley MacLaine (I had missed her appearance before a screening in the Chinese of THE APARTMENT, one of my only true regrets of the weekend) the astounding "Return of the Dream Machine", a hand-cranked projector show giving us the chance to see early silent with some jaw-dropping footage and was certainly a highlight of the festival. The closing night selection, for me anyway, was a screening of the 2014 restoration of Vittorio Di Sica's MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE in the main Chinese theater that featured star Sophia Loren appearing with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz for a loose, engaging talk before the screening. The crowd loved Sophia, obviously, but it occurred to me as the De Sica film played, and I liked it very much, that of all the times I had been to this glorious theater I had never seen a film quite like this there. It was a near-religious experience comparable in its own way to seeing LIMELIGHT in that much smaller theater—both experiences were hugely moving for me and both served as a reminder of why I was there in the first place, a reminder of how ridiculously huge my love of film can sometimes be.
All that was left following Sophia Loren was the closing night party, more drinks with that Bogart gin and getting to spend a little more time with some of the people I'd been spending time with over the past few days. Of the memories I've taken away with me from that weekend LIMELIGHT seems like a special one—there was even the unexpected bonding I had a day later with someone I only know slightly over how much me had loved it as well. It's the sort of memory that gets me to still miss the TCM Festival a month later but you have to get back to reality eventually, I suppose. But there was the chance to see these films, to love them, to have them stay with me. To not forget Chaplin. Or Keaton. Or Sophia Loren. Or John Ford. Or Lizabeth Scott. As I walked off that night from the closing night party to the subway nearby I felt a surge through me over how much I loved the films I've seen, how much I love so many films and how happy I am that it's given me the chance to meet more people who feel the same. And TCM is still playing behind me as I write this. Sometimes it's ok to feed an addiction like films just as it's a good thing to be reminded that maybe you should return to those Chaplin films that you haven't seen in years to see what they might have for you at this point in life. And realize that they're about much more than just the ending. It's about how those endings, those films, stay with you no matter what. And that love continues.
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Racer Cole ready for new season
MOTOR racing champion James Cole from Southport was one of the stars of the Autosport International Show staged at the NEC Birmingham last weekend.
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Cole (25), who will shortly be starting a second season in the British Touring Car Championship, joined fellow tin-top racers to sign autographs and hand out posters to thousands of enthusiasts that had flocked to the BTCC stand.
As announced recently in the Southport Visiter, the former single-seater champion Cole was British Formula Ford Champion in 2009 and runner-up in the National Class of the British Formula Three International Series in 2010 - will be driving a Toyota Avensis with United Autosports, a new team to the BTCC, but one with a growing reputation in GT racing, this year.
He will be driving alongside series newcomer Glynn Geddie, winner of the European Super Challenge Championship with United Autosports last year, piloting a second Toyota Avensis.
Looking forward to the new challenge Richard Dean, team owner and managing director of United Autosports, said: "We have a strong driver line up in James (Cole) and Glynn (Geddie). James' BTCC experience and Glynn's pure driving skill will be invaluable to the team in 2014."
Cole finished 21st overall in the 2013 BTCC series, despite missing the entire second half of the season after deciding to quit Team Hard following a mixed start to his touring car career.
Now with United Autosports Cole said, in one of a number of interviews during the show, that he was "hoping for a very good year" with his new team and that "if we could get a win that would be fantastic".
As the team continues to prepare for the new season with their ex-Frank Wrathall Toyota Avensis', Cole added they would be looking for consistency and results in the top six and top ten over the ten round thirty race series.
During the year the BTCC, with all races featured live on ITV4, will be visiting all the major circuits in the UK, including Brands Hatch, Donington Park, Oulton Park, Thruxton, Croft, Snetterton, Knockhill, Rockingham and the current home of the British Grand Prix Silverstone.
The season starts with three races at Brands Hatch (Indy circuit) on the weekend of March 29-30.
Southport FCSouthport FC's best FA Cup momentsSandgrounders' FA Cup highlights - as they prepare to face Derby County in the FA Cup third round
Birkdale High SchoolSouthport schoolboy named sailing's North West Youth Champion
Southport RUFCDose of defeat for medics Tough start ends with Southport taking the win
FA CupDavies praised star striker Sampson as 'Port claim second 3-0 winThe Yellows have won five out of seven matches in 2018
Football NewsGoal machine Jason Gilchrist targets 30 goals for SouthportThe Yellows' record signing netted a hat-trick last week
Greenbank High SchoolSchool trip to Ghana provides Southport schools with an education Farnborough Road Juniors and Greenbank High spend half-term in west Africa


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We know the sense of accomplishment and friendship that competitive sports provide. Medstar participated in Integohealth Cricket Tournament organized on 29th April.
There was fun, excitement and lots of action. A big shout-out for all the participants who played and supported us in making this day a huge success!


One sunday morning a month or so ago, I was marched out of the house for moaning about lack of time to myself (always being responsible for the baby, even if I am doing something for myself like shopping). After a few tears from me SNH told me to pack up my things and go do something by myself, he'll look after the bub. At a complete loss of what to do, I headed in to Newtown and sat down to a luxurious lunch at Sushi Train. Luxurious because I wasn't furiously stuffing food in my mouth, while simultaneously entertaining a baby on my lap and trying to get out of the restaurant as quickly as possible before said baby cracks the shits.
I then ate cakes from Black Star patisserie. Determined to purchase something for myself, I slowly browsed through every book shop on King St. Stopping to squee and text SNH when I found my book in Better Read Than Dead (very exciting!). But I soon became frustrated as every book I pulled off the shelves was for the bub. I seem to never really buy myself anything anymore, it's always baby related. In a huff I got into my car and drove to Gleebooks in Dulwich Hill, hoping they would still have an interior decorating book in store I had seen months ago (they didn't and I can't remember the name to even order, poo!). But instead came away with two craft books for toy making! The first a book for knitting toys, KnitWit and the second a book for sewing toys, Hop Skip Jump by a lovely Australian blogger.
Yes, another purchase that would ultimately result in stuff for the baby but in the process I would have fun, feel crafty and get creative again. Exactly what I needed to brush off the baby-fog. So far I have sewn two of the toys and loved making them! They are very simple, yet beautifully designed so the final product looks quirky and lovely. The fantastic Mr Fox toy took a few evening to put together, with a lot of parts and fiddly pattern to cut out (I used left over curtain and quilt material to make him) and the sausage dog, Doris, was easily whipped up in less than a day.
They will live on baby's bed, while not in use, for now until he is a little older and then I am sure they will get coated in a lovely layer of spittle from an appreciative bub.
Mr Fox and Doris are sitting on the quilt I made baby while I was pregnant. I will write a post about it another day, but it was my first quilt and a bit tricky and I finished it the day I went in to labour (talk about timing!).


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Vickers Oils started making mineral oil preparations for the woollen industry in the mid-19th century. This bill was made out to fellow Leeds Legend, AW Hainsworth, in 1859. These 'Living Legends' have made many changes over the generations but there is strong continuity too – in products, methods and values.


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As part of its long-standing Campaign for Nursing's Future platform, Johnson & Johnson is a proud partner of the National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA). At the annual NSNA Convention, held this year in Dallas, J&J provided an informative and engaging experience to help educate and support thousands of nursing students and leaders from across the country. The experience, entitled "GO GLOBAL give forward," featured multiple interactive areas that highlighted global health challenges and solutions.


While it looks easy at first, spanking can be painful. That being said, the satisfaction and happiness that a sweet session of spanking can bring is unmatched. If you are just starting out you're your exploration on the kink front, a light spanking session is what you need in your life. It will help you understand what a good spanking session needs and prepare for the whips and peddles by the high-class mistresses at a later stage.


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ELGAR, E.: Enigma Variations (BBC Symphony, Bernstein)
SHOW Works Movements Chapters
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Bernstein, Leonard
Elgar, Edward - Composer
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma"
Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London
Catalogue Number: ICAD5098
Bernstein's only engagement with the BBC Symphony Orchestra took place in April 1982. Although Bernstein and the orchestra got off to a rocky start, the partnership resulted in perhaps the most controversial and infamous and perhaps the most beautifully intense interpretation of Elgar's Enigma Variations. Most famously, under Bernstein's baton, 'Nimrod' (Variation IX) lasts five minutes and fifteen seconds – nearly twice as long as most versions.
The video also contains the rehearsal of the Enigma Variations at the BBC Studios, and an interview with Leonard Bernstein by Barry Norman about the themes relating to the variations.
Introduction - Variation 1: C. A. E. (The Composer's Wife)
Variation 2: H. D. S-P. (Hew David Steuart-Powell)
Variation 3: R. B. T. (Richard Baxter Townshend)
Variation 4: W. M. B. (William Meath Baker)
Variation 5: R. P. A. (Richard Penrose Arnold) -
Variation 6: Ysobel (Isabel Fitton)
Variation 7: Troyte (Troyte Griffith)
Variation 8: W. N. (Winifred Norbury) -
Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger)
Variation 10: Intermezzo: Dorabella (Dora Penny)
Variation 11: G. R. S. (George Robertson Sinclair)
Variation 12: B. G. N. (Basil G. Nevinson) -
Variation 13: Romanza: *** (Lady Mary Lygon) -
Variation 14: Finale: E. D. U. (The Composer)
Leonard Bernstein Rehearsal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Part I
Interview with Leonard Bernstein by Barry Norman
Leonard Bernstein Rehearsal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Part II
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12/01/2016�� iPad Pro iPad pro PDF annotate app? Discussion in 'iPad' started by patrickdunn used it to replace scanning. I had not been a fan of notability on my iPad Air, but with the pencil it has been the best pdf app that works with the apple pencil, at least for my uses. share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email Link Like + Quote Reply. TheColtr and macaximx like this. aw3524, Dec �... On this list, only the iPad Pro has anything similar to the Pencil. Gaming� Everyone wants a break from reading from time to time, and games can be a nice option�if your e-reader supports them, that is.
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Elisha Finney | Directors | NanoString Technologies, Inc.
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Unit 1 ASDA PLC Business Environment Merit Copy
This Unit 1 ASDA PLC Business Environment Merit Copy About the company ASDA PLC. ASDA PLC is one the largest supermarket chain in the world. The UK based Retail Company which deals in grocery products and general merchandise was first started in 1949. The company has its headquarters in Yorkshire in London (Rancati, E). In terms of market share, ASDA is second largest company in the UK. The biggest change in the structure of the company came in the year 1999 when the company was acquired by Wal-Mart, the largest retail company in the world (Fernie, 2006). After the collaboration, ASDA took over Sainsbury in the year 2004; however, it is still behind Tesco which is the market leader in UK in retail sector. The company currently operates more than 560 stores across UK and employs around 175 thousand employees currently.
1. Describe the organization of your choice. You must explain the nature of the organization and its background, as well as the factors that have helped it to become successful in its sector. You will need to identify the criteria you have used for judging the organization's success.
ASDA PLC is a public limited company which widely operates in UK. The different types of organization along with their core purpose are discussed below:
Public Sector organization: Public sector organizations are those which are owned by the government of a country. Since, the government owns the organization; the sole purpose of such organizations is to general welfare and providing services to the society. The organization works for the improvement of the people and the society (Verbeeten, 2008).
Private Sector Organization: The private sector organizations are those which are privately owned and their sole motive is to ear maximum profits. To achieve maximum profits, these organization aims to increase their growth, stay competitively ahead of its competitors, works efficiently to keep customers and other stakeholder satisfied. Some key Private sector organizations based on the type of ownership are:
Sole Proprietor: When there is a single owner which runs the business it is known as sole proprietorship. The main aim of such organization is to make maximum profit.
Partnership: When a two or more than two people comes together to open a business, it is known a partnership. The profits are shared by the partners and the decision making is also collective.
Private Ltd. Organization: A private ltd. organization is one whose shares are owned by a group of people. The market shares cannot be distributed among common masses (Ball, 2005).
Public Ltd. Organization: Public ltd. organizations are those organizations whose shares are owned by public. However, the company is run by a group of people known as the Board of Directors who look to achieve maximum benefits for the company by formulating proper business strategies (Ball, 2005).
Franchising:The last type of private sector organization is franchising where a company uses its brand name to sell its product in a market through franchising small vendors in those areas, which help the company to save lot of money in construction of new stores (Kulic, 2009).
Non-Profit Organization: Non-Profit Organizations are those organizations which voluntarily participate to work for the betterment of certain section of society like physically handicapped people or old age people and try to bring them equal to the society. These organizations are funded by government or other organization through charity, donation, etc. (Anheier, 2014).
ASDA PLC as the name suggest is a public limited company. Therefore, the company's shares are bought by common people who are benefitted by the performance of the company and are known as the shareholders of the company. The company has its Board members who are leaded by the CEO of the company.
Factors that helped ASDA to become a successful company:
Firstly, the company realized the importance of being cost leader. Cost leadership strategy has been the key for success of ASDA in all these years. Its main competitors Tesco and Sainsbury operate globally and hence have wider range of marker. However, ASDA who majorly operates in UK keeps itself competitive ahead of its competitors because of low prices set by the company (Graff, 2006).
Secondly, ASDA PLC stores widen the product line in order to offer its customers with wide range products to choose from. The company earlier uses to deal only in retail sector, but slowly moved into gift items, travel and electronic products to meet the demand of customers.
Thirdly, the technological development of ASDA also plays an important role its success. Online business, acceptance of credit and debit cards at stores, use of RFID, self-checkout machines, etc. have facilitated the smooth transaction and easy and pleasant shopping experience for its customer. Promoting itself using loyalty card to existing customers also boost the sales of the company. Thus, technological developments have been a key for the success story of ASDA (Xie, 2013).
2. Discuss how SWOT and PESTLE framework can be utilized by the organization in its strategic decision making and how the use of these models can impact upon an organization's long term success.
SWOT analysis on ASDA PLC (Vignali, 2009):
Strong brand name:Operating as many as 560 stores across UK, ASDA holds a strong brand name with it. The company is known for its wide variety of products and value for money and is one of the most popular brands in UK.
Low Cost Products: One of the core competencies of ASDA PLC is to be cost leader compared to its other competitors. The company offers its product at low prices compared to its other three competitors in UK, which is the key to success for ASDA in all these years.
Benefits from Wal-Mart: ASDA collaboration with Wal-Mart has also been one of the strengths of ASDA, which has benefitted it a lot. The company uses the USA culture in UK thus making it a different company than its rival companies. Moreover, the company has boosted its sales in non-food items in the last five years. The main reason for this increase in sales has been the expertise and reach of Wal-Mart. ASDA has been able to source products globally and used store operations management techniques from Wal-Mart effectively to increase its sales.
Weaknesses:
Small Stores in UK: ASDA do not have smaller supermarkets in UK. On the other hand, Tesco offer both small and medium size supermarkets in the rural areas of UK. Since, the government restricts the construction of big supermarkets in rural areas; it forced ASDA to open only in urban parts of the country. Therefore, the company does not cover major parts of the country.
Large size:Wal-Mart is a global giant and operates in nearly all parts of the world. Moreover, ASDA PLC itself has lot of stores to manage. Thus, it sometimes becomes difficult to manage and control all the activities in all the stores which may lead to dissatisfaction among customers.
Poor quality product: Being the cheapest retailer compared to its other rival companies, ASDA is supposing to sale low quality products. With rising awareness among people, it is believed that the people may shift their buying pattern to quality products and will prefer quality over price which can result in fewer sales for the company.
Expansion to European countries: ASDA PLC till now was operating in UK only. However, since UK is part of European Union, ASDA has the freedom to operate in all those European nations which are members of EU. Thus, it is a big opportunity for ASDA to increase its growth by operating in these countries.
Opening Small supermarkets: As mentioned above, another opportunity which lie in front of ASDA is to open small supermarkets in the rural parts of UK where the company does not operates till now. ASDA aims to overtake Tesco for which the key is to beat them while operating in all the parts of the country. ASDA has already started its making use of this opportunity by buying Netto supermarkets which is a move taken by the company to enter into small supermarket format.
Threats:
Competition in UK retail sector: The four giants namely Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury and Morrison's have been the dominating companies as far as retail sector in UK is concerned. Thus, ASDA faces stiff competition from the other three rival companies and have to come up with new innovative ideas from time to time to stay competitively ahead.
Price War: Being Oligopoly type of market, ASDA faces stiff price war competition. The company is known for its cost leadership in the segment and sells its product at lowest price compared to other three companies. However, constant changes in the prices of their product by other companies, keeps ASDA on its toes in maintaining low price.
Economic fluctuation: Operating at low price, Sales of ASDA are widely affected by the economic fluctuations. Food price inflation or increase in taxes results in very low marginal profits for the company and thus ASDA is affected mostly compared to the other countries because of economic fluctuations.
PESTEL analysis on ASDA (Metzger, 2014):
Political/Legal Factors: Political Factors had both positive and negative effects on ASDA PLC. The company is benefitted by the formation of European Union which offers wide growth opportunity to ASDA. Addition of China to WTO has also resulted in ASDA opening of its stores in China and also imports products from China. However, the increase in the taxes by the UK government impact the profit margin of ASDA to considerable extent as the company already sells its product at lesser price to stay ahead of its competitors. UK law to open only small size supermarket in rural areas has also impacted company's prospect to grow in rural areas as the company till now was operating in big supermarket format only.
Economic Factors: The 2008 global recession resulted in low purchasing power among people and people losing on job played an important role in affecting business. However, it was seen that because of recession, the sales of ASDA stores were boosted because of its low price and thus, people who earlier used to prefer other stores were forced to purchase from ASDA. However, food price inflation forces ASDA to increase its price as the company operates on low marginal profits and therefore is widely affected by inflation.
Social Factors: People are becoming more educated these days and prefer healthy food. Thus, it is important that ASDA increase the supply of organic food to meet the increasing demand.
Technological Factors: With e-commerce and online business, ASDA also introduced its own online shopping experience which is currently in trend. ASDA has been a quick in adopting new IT methods to support its operations.
Environmental Factors: ASDA stores are built in eco-friendly manner. The stores are 40% efficient and emit 50% lesser carbon compared to a new built store. The company takes keen steps to make sure that its corporate social responsibility is maintained.
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3. Analyse the evolution of the culture of your chosen organization in the context of its changing business environment and how an organization culture can influence its long term success.
Organization structure can be classified into two categorize i.e. Hierarchical structure or Flat organizations. Organizations with hierarchical type of organization structure have more levels of management and the decision making is in the hands of the top management. The transfer of information from lower level to higher level is slow as it has to be transferred from each level.
On the other hand, a Flat organization has lesser or no levels and everyone in the company is considered equal. The communication and flow of information is easy. However, decision making may not be spontaneous as it may be passes only after discussion with all the employees.
ASDA PLC is a huge organization and as a result the company adopts hierarchical structure and culture. However, from a strict adhocracy culture where the decision making was solely in the hands of the senior members and the major workforce was expected to carry out tasks assigned to them by higher management, the company has evolved and has started valuing its employees more and more.
Before, 2002, ASDA slogan was to be the best clothing and food superstore. However, the slogan was changed to be the best valued retailer in the country (Leech, 2007). Thus, the company started operating on four values which are (Leech, 2007):
• To provide excellent service to its customers.
• To always strive for excellence.
• To respect all the colleagues and stakeholders.
• To work with integrity.
ASDA PLC in the year 2009 did a survey on Customer known as "Customer Pledge" to understand what customer expects at work place. The company did the same survey on its employees to understand what the employees expect from the company and found four basic pledges from the employees which were: Fairness at workplace, everyone should be given equal opportunity, everyone should be respected within the organization and everyone should take pride while working for ASDA.
The autocratic leadership style which once was the main characteristics of ASDA slowly started to change to Participative leadership style. Though the company's decision is still taken by the senior members, the company has started various employee forums where employees are free to give their suggestions and opinion about the company. Thus, it makes employees feel more committed towards the company. According to Hertzberg theory, ASDA realized the importance of motivational factors other than Hygiene Factors and therefore the management works closely with its subordinated and sometimes even help them to make them feel better (Guest, 2013). The managers also develop personal relations with the employees and listen and understand their personal problems and tries to sort them out which improves the efficiency of employees at ASDA. The Line managers in ASDA, in order to fulfil the employee pledges discussed above, do "Tiny Noticeable Things" to engage the employees. The leaders are polite in their behaviour, discuss the targets set for each individual and team with the team, help the employees at the store to make them understand better and make them feel comfortable.
Working on evolution of its culture, ASDA also understand the important of having diversified workforce. The company values diversity more than ethnicity and expects its employees to respect and work together as a team irrespective of caste, sex, religion, culture, etc. of the person. The managers are also expected to be fair and give equal opportunities to all employees in ASDA.
While merging with Wal-Mart, ASDA collaboration was smooth and was greeted by the employees. The company never faced opposition from its employees. The main reason was company's transparent policy (Eisenstat, 2008). Though, the company decisions were taken by the Board members, the company kept its employees always aware of the structural changes as well as future strategy of the company. Thus, employees felt secure by the decision making of the company and did not panic and supported the company at the time of merger.
Thus, it can be seen that ASDA cultural change was smooth as the company was able to follow the Lewin model of change effectively. According to Lewin model of change, a company has to undergo three stages while undergoing a change. The three stages are: Unfreeze, transition and Freeze (Helms-Mills, 2008).
During unfreeze state, a company decides the benefits and disadvantages of going through a change and weigh them together. It can be seen that before ASDA's merger with Wal-Mart the company was already behaving like a USA based company adopting the values of Wal-Mart. The next phase was the transition phase which went on smoothly because of the strong leadership qualities by the senior management of ASDA who make sure that the employees were kept aware about company's changes and hence were supported by the employees. The last stage of freeze has also been carried out by ASDA strongly as the company has shown remarkable growth after its merger with Wal-Mart and the company continues to threaten Tesco to remove it from the number one position.
Thus, ASDA has experienced a huge change in its culture and approach. The company bureaucratic type of management style which kept staff members and managers in separate offices and flow of information was from top to bottom slowly changed as the company realized the importance of human resource in their company. The declining sales of ASDA made them realized that the company needs to make changes in its culture. Thus, the company following Hertzberg Motivational theory removed extra layers which were stopping them from flow of information and narrowed its structure to understand the organization better. The employees were given the opportunity to give their views and opinion. The company also started using technical means to communicate with each other. Email became one of the major means to communicate. ASDA realized the importance of managing its customer and therefore introduced automated tools for customer relationship management. Some key changes done by ASDA at organization level are:
Firstly, the company started to be price competitive in the market.
Secondly, the company widened its range of products to attract more customers.
Thirdly, the company produced high volumes of product to improve trading.
Finally, the company tried to reduce the fixed cost so as to be cost leader in the market.
Thus, all these changes helped ASDA to sustain in all these years. The company needs to be more open towards its employees in future so as to value them more and bring out the best from them.
Thus, it can be seen that ASDA PLC has wider opportunities to grow in European and Asian countries which will also help the company to overcome its Threats and Weaknesses. The company is highly dependent on UK market and hence needs to grow internationally to achieve higher benefits in the long run. The environmental factors also suggest that in order to achieve better returns it is essential that ASDA should look to grow globally. The organizational structure and culture of ASDA is also discussed and the changes that were brought were also discussed. The organizational changes brought in by ASDA have helped the company to sustain itself in the long run. The management style have changed a lot since the company was started facilitating communication system within the organization and adopting proper motivational theories into effect.
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